I have been successful at overriding panels (for my contact form and about us panels) but I am running into a problem. I'd like to place boxes into a panel that will allow, when clicked, to open new pages (i.e. blog, press releases, etc). I've read previously that you cannot use regular page lines formatting to accomplish this so I am wondering how to do so?

Related: I'd like to add a "get it now" button or call out on the first panel to encourage people to click-through. How is that possible?

ETA: I want to specifically overtake the "latest posts" page with this